I'm in a similar phase and this question resonates.
One thing I’m slowly realizing: after launch, distribution becomes a separate craft from building. The product can be good, but if no natural channel exists where your users already hang out, growth feels silent.
Curious if others found that identifying a repeatable distribution channel mattered more than polishing the product at this stage.
That’s a good way to put it — distribution really does feel like a different craft.
What I’m struggling with is that many products don’t have a “natural hangout” early on. Curious whether people here found one channel worth committing to, or if it was more about stacking small signals over time.
And I've had a brief try myself. The interface, /help and even copilot --help show nothing about which model you're using or how to switch between them. There's no /model command. Thankfully Simon describes that. The fact that you can't switch to a model that Copilot normally offers unlimited usage of, such as GPT-4.1, is very disappointing. (I tried it and it didn't work, doesn't even print an error for invalid model ID.)
It seems that they wrote this from scratch as it's missing the features you'll find in any other CLI tool such as opencode, crush, Claude Code, etc. It's a little bit bare. The interface is somewhat different and better or worse in some ways. It's good that it uses normal terminal scroll-back instead of hiding it, but you can still expand/collapse tool outputs. Really wish I could expand a single one though. Viewing outputs of running tools live glitches up the terminal UI, at least in xfce4-terminal.
Instead of showing you how much of the context window remains like some other CLIs, it shows how many requests you have remaining this month.
> By default, copilot utilizes Claude Sonnet 4. We also support GPT-5 via an environment variable. Run COPILOT_MODEL=gpt-5 copilot to launch in GPT-5 mode. Or on Windows, run set COPILOT_MODEL=gpt-5 before running copilot.
So far I have used Resend, Sendgrid, Loops (for a person throw away project so don't have good exposure) but I found Resend the most easiest, convenient and straightforward. Especially their React Email library made it so easier to compose emails using React components. I really love that. Back then we had to manually craft HTML emails, worry about inline styles, and constantly test across different clients, which was a pretty painful process compared to how smooth it is now with React Emails.
One key part of my workflow is validating emails before sending so I'm not blowing up my bills or getting labelled as spam. And since Resend doesn’t support that natively, I'm currently having to use Emailable’s API to check if addresses are actually deliverable. Having that built-in would be a huge plus. And I know it's not usually something that email providers should care about but it would be so much better if Cloudflare makes this a native offering.
Great insights so far. I'd also love to dig deeper into the early days: What did your first 3-6 months look like? Especially curious about strategies beyond referrals - how did you directly find and land your first clients before having a strong portfolio?
Hey, appreciate the detailed feedback! But honestly, this was just a silly little page I put together in a few hours for fun. Wasn't trying to solve any problems - just wanted to make some people laugh with dumb jokes and memes on Valentine's Day And you're right - I was trying so hard to be universally relatable but it might have become generic.
Cool ideas about what it could be! But you know how sometimes you just want to make something goofy without a deeper meaning? That's all this was.
And yeah fair point about the location stuff - definitely could've handled that better with Cloudflare!
One thing I’m slowly realizing: after launch, distribution becomes a separate craft from building. The product can be good, but if no natural channel exists where your users already hang out, growth feels silent.
Curious if others found that identifying a repeatable distribution channel mattered more than polishing the product at this stage.